;H :Î’|
nniaton Jerald
. tv«ry Thursday a t Her.
d m atllla G o u ty , Oregon by
and Crowder, H l t o r aad Una
ltered aa aaeond class matter,
HOC at the poetofflce at
Hermiston, Oregon.
Bubficription Kate»
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W ild Geese Abandon
Old Flying Formation
W hite Salmon In the state of Wash
ington reports a curious occurrence.
The wild geese flying toward their
nesting grounds abandoned the tline-
honored “ V" formation and took to
the crescent.
W hat can account for so basic a
change In goose technology? the New
Tork Sun asks. Mere accident seems
aa Insufficient explanation. It Is more
logical to consider the matter from
the standpoint of cause and effect.
The fact Is that the modern goose
has been afforded unusual opportuni
ties for observing formations. He sees
football teams In action, observes the
deploying lines of young men at cltl-
sen training camp drill. He cannot
help noticing the gyrations of boy
scouts and cnntp tire girls. The air
service brings a variety of putterns to
his attention In the air Itself. Then
every goose has memories, or Inis
beard traditions or rumors of Eu
ropean w ar activities— the salient, the
enveloping movement, the varied and
wavering course of the zero hour a t
tack.
I t Is a scientific age. Is even the
goose affected? Perhaps he has adopt
ed the empiric method and Is experi
menting with formations to see If, a ft
er all, the earth may not he able to
teach blin something about the a ir I
A fric a n Coazt Ncticez
Use Beetles as Food
Several species of beetles are em
ployed In medicine, but It Is unusual
to find them serving ub food for men.
says a w riter In Conquest. The na
tives of the west coast of Africa, how
ever, where the Goliath beetle Is found,
eat It boiled und consider it a sweet
and appetizing delicacy.
Io tbe simplicity of Its coloring no
beetle could be more strikingly hand
some. The beautiful texture of Its
cloeely cropped silky fnr and the pu
rity of the black und white-figured cout
give to thia Insect the appearance of
being clothed In ermine and black vel
Bohemian Women Led
in Feminist M
isToir nznxLD,
Found
In Kansas Community
hermibton . obtoox .
Turhays Perform W ild
Dance Around Snake
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know not If tbe wild turkey suf
“I f the governor was to offer a prise fers frog» snake bite; but at sight ol
for the meanest man In 17 states," In a large snake the bird will show ex
dignantly declared the landlord of Ute
treme excitement. I f a Sock be pres
Petunia tavern, "h alf tbe population,
ent a slow dance will be begun about
and mebby alt o f ’em, would p in t
the reptile, tbe birds lowering theli
right at Ira Sours In one voice and
wings, raising and spreading their tulls
say. T h e re be stands, governor.*
sod making a continuous querulour
“ Why. dod-blast him, he attends ev
calling. Single birds will detach them
ery home talent dramatic performance
selves from the revolving circle U
that Is given In tbe ball here, and
make frantfe dashes at the snake, say) I g
right In tbe most moving parts, when
a story in “Days Off In Dixie.”
g
the kinfolks o f our best young peo
‘T h is dervluhltke performance wll jg
ple are setting In solemn silence while
continue for an hour or more. I f th< g
their sons and daughters are uttering
snake Is not too formidable he w lll.B
words of heroic and pathetic mien, as
likely be killed; but a serpent of th< ■
proportions of a great diamond-back ■
It were, be laughs out loud, In the
most ryeh ald tone Imaginable. Re
ra ttle r w ill be left unmolested.
a
cently when my nephew, whose Adam's
“ I once witnessed thia strange snakt i g
apple works up and down quite ex
dance In the mountains of soutberz g
citedly when he Is Interested In what
Pennsylvania.
From the top of e ■
he Is saying, was telling the audience
hanging ravine I looked down through ■
the mist of dawn and counted th« ■
that his father was slain In battle-uh,
bis mother died of a broken heart-uh^
turkeys. There were 26 In number I ■
and his home was laid desolate-uh.
They continued their antics about th« g
fired by the torch of the invuder-uh. i snake for a full half hour, when the) g
Ira Sours, confound him to thnnder,
broke up the dance and began forag g
aetually laid buck and blaw-huw-liawed
I ng. T be snake was a king snake nnf ! g
as If It was youmerous!”— Kansas
a large one. The turkeys probably ; ■
City Times.
left him dazed and deafened, but oth j
ernlse he was unharmed."
5
Czechoslovakia claims the
tlon of being the birthplace Of the
feminist movement. Historians have
found documents showing that a re
public In which all the Important of
fices were held by women existed In
Bohemia In the 8eventh century. The
8oclety for Historical Research will
publish a complete account ot this
republic. It appears that at the death
of Queen IJhussa o f Bohemia, a young
girl named Wlaska. who had been the
trusted counselor of the queen, or
ganized an armed force of a few hun
dred women and waged w ar against
the barons of the country. Several
strong castles were stormed and tak
en by these amazons and the prison
ers were compelled to work the fields
and do the most menial labor. Aa
assembly composed entirely of women
voted that, 1. Any man In possession
of arms should be punished by d eath;
2. When expeditions were to be made
only women would be allowed to fight,
the men's role being that of nursing
the wounded and driving the carta
with food and w ater; 3. Men were to
be allowed to ride with their knees
on the same side of the horse (side-
wise) ; 4. Women were to chose their
husbands and a man’s refusal to ac Towne Have Similar
cept a woman’s choice was aa offense
and Some O dd Names
punishable by death. Thia rule of
Colne sounds rather distinctive as
women Is said to have lasted seven
years, after which, "with bitter fights, a name for a town, yet there ure ten
Colnes In England. There also are
the men regained the upper hand.”
14 Burtons, and 37 Burton« with ad
ditions There are 23 Prestons and 38
others with affixes. Jericho uppears
Fifty Year«’ Silence
six times on English ordnance maps;
Brought to an End Paradise, live times, and Nineveh, Mt.
A curious case of the strange work Zion, M t. Ararat, and M t. Ephraim
ings of what we call the subconscious three times each.
mind Is reported from New York. A
Tbe name Washington Is used by
man who bud been supposed to be more than 200 cities, towns, villages
both deaf and dumb for 65 years— aad hamlets In America, yet a letter
ever since he was five years old—was addressed to Washington without uny
put under ether In order to undergo other designation will go to Washing
an operation. When he came out of ton, D. G , while one addressed to Pres
the anesthetic he could both hear and ton, w ill be delivered to the Lanca
talk, and he did talk fluently and shire cotton town, according to Lon
steadily. As a child the man was ex don Tit-Bits.
tremely shy and self-conscious.
He
Names consisting of a single letter
learned to talk, but his own voice are not uncommon. France bus a riv
seemed to frighten him, and be kept er and Sweden a town named A, white
silent as much as possible, sometimes there Is a River Y in Uollnnd, and
for days nt a time. When he was five one of the bays of the Zuyder Zee
he stopped talking altogether. The bears the same name. Two Chinese
doctors say that his vocal organs were towns are Y and O, while In N o r
perfectly normal, but that he deluded mandy there Is a town named O.
himself Into the Idea that he could
not talk. Later by a sim ilar process
The First Compass
of self hypnotism he became con
W hile on the slopes of Blount Ida,
vinced that he could not hear. That
he did hear and that his subconscious In Asia Minor, more than two thousand
mind took note of what he heard are years ago, a shepherd found that the
evident from his ability to talk when Iron-shod end of his stnff was clinging
H e also found many
the strange Inhibition was removed by to a stone.
the unusual experience of etherization. pieces of this strange stone scattered
on the ground.
— Youth's Companion.
This hard black mineral, which Is
an oxide of Iron, became known as
“Mugnes-stone,” as It was found In a
f l a / t M en Steal Wives
The men of Ball, an Island In the In district called “Magnesia. It Is prob
dian arcldpelugo, still as they did cen able that our word magnet is derived
turies ago secure their wives by pur from the name.
No use was made of the mineral
chase or capture, according to the
Family Herald. An exchange o f ar for many centuries. At last, however,
dent glances In temple or market place a Chinese found that a piece of this
and perhaps a few clandestine meet •tone, hung on a thread, ahvnys point
This
ings tell the lover If the lady Is not ed to the north aad south.
averse to abduction. He knows, how crude Instrument was the father of
ever, that If he Is caught tn the act of our modern compass.
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K ilt Not National
Dress o f Scotland
By many people, the kilt Is regarded
• as the national dress of Scotland, bul
this Is not correct, for It Is worn only
In the Highlands and bas never been
popular In the Lowlands. The kilt was
I suppressed by act of parliament In
1745, a fter the Jacobite rebellion, and
though It was tolerated at a later date.
It never became popular again.
'
The earliest mention of the kilt Is
to be found In an obscure passage of
the Norwegian history of Magnus
. Barefoot, a king of that country who
came to the Hebrides In the Eleventh
century. It appears that the dress of
those days consisted of a sort of skirt,
dyed or painted, and a mantle, the
former being the original of the kilt
nnd the latter of the plaid.
In “Letters from the North of Scot
land," published in 1725, the author
describes the Highlanders as wearing
“a bonnet made of thrum, without a
b rim ; a short coat, a waistcoat longer
by five or six Inches; short stockings,
and brogues without heels. Over this
habit they wear a plaid, which Is usu
ally three yards long and two breadths
wide, and the whole garb is made of
chequered tartan.”
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She— It's the bardesl work to get
Alle« to sing.
Ho— Well, I suppose the poor girl
doesn't flke to hear II any better than
the rest of us do.— Boston T rs u s c rlp t.1
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line of “bunk” but
the home pri
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entitled to your job
work. The do'Iar
you spend he»e
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If it
W e have just received our new
stock in and would be pleased
to show them to you.
8 - Kfadce as standards and then Slg figures on doing considerable
makes It a misdemeanor for any re- , basine
this
this
fallar or dealer to have In his po»-
give you an
Inland Empire Lumber Co.
DEPARTMENT
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every Sunday a t 11 o'clock. Sunday *
♦ Coxy Confer Bestaurant Be-opens
school a t 1 0 :1 5 .
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Slg Davfe p roprietor of the Cosy
Invited to attend. W ednesday eve
corner restaurant In thia c ity re-
Michigan Fallows Oregon
n in g m eeting firs t Wednesday each
I
F ollow in g Oregon, M ich
igan h a s , opened the .establishm ent Monday,
ichigan
m onth.
enacted a p otato g radin g law th a t T be restaurant has been cloned fo r
goes yet fu rth e r In
the
w ay
o f the past tw o weeks. T h e tourists
standardisation. I t adopts Jthi» V . are beginning to tra v e l now aad
— R EA D T H E W A N T ADS—
it to the home prin
ter. The salesman
from
an out-of-
town concern may
In waging your battle with the
house fly start early and m ake
it successful by using the screen
doors and window screens of
session potatoes th a t are not grad
ed and marked. A n y stock th a t is
not graded into standard grades must
be marked at d sold as culls. The
state legislature held th a t this law
Old Sea Superstition
The Flying Dutchman was a phan was needed th a t the state m ight hold
tom ship seen by snllors tn tempestu its outside m arkets.
vet.
ous weather off the Cape of Good
The construction of the nest of the
Hope, aud considered the forerunner
Dozen, Not “Pound”
Goliath beetle Is one of the problems
luck. The generally accepted
In a recent b ulletin giving the
of natural history. A spcclnu-n of the
tradition, as stated by Sir W alter
grades under the new egg-grading
cocoon Is In the Nnturul History mu
Scott, Is “that she was originally a
seum. South Kensington, England. Il
vessel loaded w ith great wealth, on law the word “ pound” was inad
Is 4 U Inches In length, with a circum
board of which some horrid act of mur vertently used in place of “ dozen,”
th a t
fresh
ference of 8% Inches, and has very
der and piracy had been committed ; nakin g the statem ent
thin wnlls fnr so large a structure,
that tbe piugue broke out among the itandard
eggs
shou'd weigh not
composed ns It Is of clay and eurth.
wicked crew, who had perpetrated the :css than 1 5-6 ounces, or 22 ounces
crime, and that they sailed In vain to the pound. I t should have read
from port to port, offering, as the
Ot the Squirrel Fam ily
22 ounces to the dozen.
price of shelter, the whole of their ill-
The sewellel Is n curious tittle beav
gotten wealth; that they were exclud
erlike rodent of the mountains from
éd from every harbor for fear of the
More Direct Dealing
northern California to Rrlllsh Colum carrying her off her willingness w ill
D u rin g the past ten or twelve
contngloirbyhlch was devouring them ;
bia, which lives In wet places over nut satisfy father or brother; so he
Eiffel Tower Useful
and that/* as a punishment of their years middle costs have constantly
grown with vegetation, where It makes lays his plans carefully and smuggles
During the period o f experimenta crimes, the apparition of the ship still
extensive burrows and runways often her away In absolute secrecy. A fter tion with the liquefaction of gnses, continued to haunt those seas In which nereased on a ll a g ric u ltu ra l pro
ducts and the Industry ia now prac
kept wet by running witter.
They a few days In hiding the groom sends Callletet, the noted French scientist,
the catastrophe took place."— Kansas
tica lly in the g rip of pow erful tra d
usually live In colonler anil hibernate, a friend to his bride's parents to ask experimented with a manometer In the
City Times.
preparing for the winter by cutting their forgiveness.
ing interests. The result is th a t the
Eiffel tower. The tower was used on
and collecting great quantities o f
Though the messenger Invariably Is account of Its great height. A soft
Increase In price of many products
The Price of Mush
woody plants and ferns, which they received with great show of hostility, steel tube was erected which run up
between the producer and consumer
carry to places nenr their burrows ihe culprits usually are forgiven. Bui the framework of the tower. Every
“Ah, fried mush for breakfast!" ex
is more than the price the producer
and spread out to dry thoroughly be If the third visit of the "go-between” three meters (nearly ten feet) a pro claimed Potter. " I certainly do like
condition
benefits
fore taking them Into their burrows is without result the lover and his jecting nnd stop cock were placed, and fried mush I I wish we might have It received. T his
but the middlemen who sit at the
as stored food. The Indians ate them bride are doomed to banishment from to each of these a glass tube. In
more often.”
cross roads o f commerce and exacts
end mnde much use of their soft fur. their village and people.
“I w ill try to,” said Mrs. Potter.
length slightly more than three meters,
A second species hns been described
M r. Potter looked at her. Just a bii to ll w h ile It is a tax on both the
was placed. Thus readings could be
from California. The many structural
taken all the way up the tube. With suspicious.
grower and consumer. T he firs t
Be Beautiful at T h irty .
differences from the beaver have led
“WheD a man works aa hard as you step to break up this middle p ro fit
this apparatus some 400 atmospheres
“I f you’re clever, you’ll be better of pressure could be reuched.
to placing the aewellels In a fam ily by
do. be is entitled to a few delicacies.'' system is cooperative organization
themselves. They are regarded as looking at thirty than yon have ever
Mrs. Potter chattered on. “I don'i
at both the producing and consuming
most nearly representing the ancestral been before," wrltea Hazel Rawson
care for fried mush myself, but then
Left Bed Reputation
Cades In the Woman's Home Compan
type of the squirrels.
I can eat my toast and drink my coffee. ends, w hich d irect-dealing methods
The name “Carpet-Baggers" was W e'll have It more often, Just like w ill reduce the d is trib u tin g costs and
ion. “You'll be better dressed, better
poised. It's only a question ot taking given as a reproach to a set of north you say.”
'middle h an dlin g, g iv in g the grower
Emerson on Education
the trouble, and of accustoming your ern political adventurers that Invaded
"T hat’s fine,” M r. Potter comment a hig her price and the consumer a
An education “which shall keep a self to thinking In terms of your own the southern states soon after the
ed, but he was lacking tn enthusiasm low er one. France has shown w hat
good coat on my son's bnek; which ago. It Is, I'll admit, more work to Civil war. and for ten years (1800-
“And now. how much will It take fo r can be done along this line. The
shall enable him to ring with conf)
be charming at tldrty than at eight 1876), by the aid of the negro vote, your shopping today?
Remember,
producers and consumers organiza
(fence the visitors' bell nt double- een. But It’s curious that many got themselves elected to all the chief
money Is not very plentiful right now
belled doors; which shall result u lti women, born to a mediocrity which offices, plundered the people, piled up
even If I do liave fried mush for break tions of th a t country now number-,
mately In establishment of a double
more than 2.445,000 heads of fam
IH-rslsted through their youth, have huge debts and stole the proceeds
fast I"— Exchange.
belled door to Ills own house— In n nt thirty found their charm. Because When, In 1877, Presldenl tinges re
ilies; had a turno ver of $12,000,000
word, which shall lead to advHnctnenl they've seen then the possibilities of fused federal protection Io the ear
and did a business last year of n ea r
in life— this we pray for on bent knees their age. and realised that the charm pet baggers, their system fell to pieces,
Resourceful M an
ly $100,000,000.
— and this Is all we pray for." It nev of maturity depends not so much on and the whites regained control of the
A policeman was walking down a
er seems to occur to the parents that your natural endowments • • on the government.— Kansas City Star.
certain street with a batch of sum
there may be an education which, In grooming, grace and mental qualities
Too Few Pay Too Much
monses for nonpayment of rent.
Itself, Is advancement In l.lfe —-that that you are willing to work for.**
Idaho has a fig h t on for a Just
One "victim ” saw him coming,
Movement of Glaciers
any other thun that may perhaps be
locked himself tn the house and d istrib ution of taxation and the state
The Swiss Alpine club In 1912 meas snatched up a pair of bellows.
advancement In Deuth; and that this
GTange has been showing up the
ured the largest of the Swiss glaciers.
essential education may be more easily
Signals
The officer knocked several times unequal w ay In which taxation Is
got. or given, than they fancy, If they
The M artins were preparing to make “L'Aletsch.” It had retreated ten feet, without response, and then proceeded levied. T he state grand master, W .
following on nearly 60 feet In 1911 to put the summons under the door
set about It In the right way; while an evening call. Snld Mr. M artin :
W . Deal, says:
“ I f all the taxable
It is for no price, and by no favor,
"I can't stand too long an evening and rather more than that In 1910. but It promptly blew out again.
land
shares
Itg
Just
responsibilities
to be got, if they set about It in the wllh those Bergers. We're coming The Rhine glacier had gone bock 3-t
This was repeated many times and
wrong.—Ruskin.
feet, In addition to the 70 feet lost in Anally the policeman, getting tired, In support of government and educa
home at ten o'clock I f I have to de
the previous year.
Nenrly nil the picked up the summons with the re tion, Inclu din g the development of
velop a headache to do so."
smaller glaciers, out of the 52 sur-_ m a rk :
our resources and b uildin g up of our
All went well until about 0:90. when
R a ised a Lii tie Doubt
veyed by the Alpine club, show some
"W ell, I don’t blame him for not highways, w e w ill not need to cry
T he manager of the Doemup latin- four-year-old Juanita M artin became retreat and the larger loss appears to
pn.vlng rent for a drafty hols like retrench or reduce In our economy
dry had advertised for s man. Early somewhat bored with the entertain
be that of the Pslu glacier, near ller- th a tl"
next morning. s mild eyed young chap menf ,he Rsrgera were offering her mlna, which Is losing regularly 70 feet
development, for sufficient funds wll^
appeared, and referred Io the adver- Climbing up Into her father'* lap and a year.
be forthcom ing w ith o u t placing any
tIsen» nt. “ You think you can fill Ihe putting an arm around Ids seek, she
burden upon the farm er, the busi
Brave Woman Rewarded
bill, do you?” asked the proprietor j commanded. In s stage whisper:
“Molly Pitcher" Is the name by ness man or the home ow ner.”
"Start your headache, daddy, start
Real Rain in India
“I dunno, boss. I've druv a laundry
which Mary Ludwig Hays Is popularly
wagon, but I never druv one o' them your headache I"— Kansas City Star.
During the monsobn season In India, known. “Moll o' the Pitcher" Is the
Crops are Looking Good
other things,” "W hst other things?”
which lasts for four months, the rain original form of the nickname. When
A ll g rain crops and crops generally
falls almost constantly. It Is neces her husband was wounded at the hat
And the applicant handed him a d ip
That M ade Difference
ping of the ad, which rend: "Wanted
sary |o keep • "to krl,” which Is a sort tie of Monmouth, Molly ran lo hit are In good condition throughout
Mollie had fibbed, but confessed the of basket wllh charcoal fire beneath, | assistance, helped him Io a sheltered the state. W e a th e r conditions have
— a man to drive laundry wagon and
fault readily— In fart, as though she burning, and clothes laid out over place nnd returned to “man” his gun been Ideal fo r eastern Oregon and
sollclL"
were rather proud of the accomplish It nil the lime In order to hate atty- (
long s|,e served It. loading an, the big reseeded area of spring wheat
ment. Mollis was a modern child.
thing dry enough to put on for a | nrlng.
For
gallantry. Genera! Is prom ising. W lU m c tte valley crops
Early Code of Laws
“You know. It was very wrong of change. Heavier clothes are soldered
Washington
commended
her; the Con are gen erally In fin e condition for
When civilization first began In pre you io tell auDtls that lie," granny up In tin container« with moth halls,
historic times. It Is probable that law told her. “Your conscience must be to that the damp air does not gel to tlnental con great voted her a sergeant'- this tim e of year. T h e fru it crop
commission and h alf pay through life
of some kind also becnine established troubling you,”
them. The monsoon Is. of course, a and Pennsylvania granted her aa as is poor, especially cherries, prunes
Even as early ns 2200 It C. a code of '
“Uh, no, R Isn't, granny,” said Mol blessing lo parts of India, for when
and apple«, and the «mat fru its w ill
natty.
written laws had been formulated anil lie. promptly. "Shs believed R.”
not be near the average crop. The
ever lbs rains fall (her* Is no fanilns.
Inscribed on Babylonian stone. The
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Hammurabi code, now over 4.000 year»
g enerally given as Ih e reason for
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STATE KAUET AGENT ♦ ¡th e lim ite d f r u it crop.
held In rooms next to the A u d ito riu m
our modern laws. Discoveries of re
cent years seem to confirm the Ides
that Babylonia was (he cradle of clvl
llzstlon. Temples dating back Io 6300
B, C. have been unearthed.
iob in our line give
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Have learned that The Herald prints the
best butter wrappers. We have the large
size, 9 by 12 inches. Our prices are-
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100
200
300
500
for
for
for
for
$1.25
$2.00
$2.60
$3.75
Many are buying them in i he I
tities, but we are here to serve you ail n
you want only a few we have them with
out the name. These we sell as loll : ,
12
30
62
100
for
for
for
for
10
25
50
80
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cents
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